• Job Description

  Req#: 70678
  What if you could do the kind of work the world needs?
  At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.
  
  A little more about your role…
  This is your opportunity to manage the delivery of large-scale projects in our Planning, Property and Advisory (PPA) discipline. Our clients are leading names in the aviation, highway, rail, energy & water industries, who rely on WSP to provide them with expert Planning and Consents advice to ensure their large-scale infrastructure projects get off to the best possible start.
  For this role, our client, based in the Greater London area, is about to embark on a large scale expansion that will require the expertise of technical specialists across many of WSP’s disciplines. Working within our Project Management Office (PMO), based in our London or Guildford offices, but with frequent visits to our client’s office, you will manage a multi-million-pound project for our Land Services team, which is based in offices around the UK and in India.
  You will be responsible for overseeing the delivery of the project and ensuring the objectives are clearly defined, appropriately resourced and successfully delivered within the agreed time, cost, and quality constraints. You will follow our Business Management System in terms of project and commercial governance and will work with external and internal stakeholders to ensure that project success criteria are managed and realised. You will work with the Project Director and Technical Leads to support the client through complex processes, anticipating their needs, managing their and our risks and ensuring that everyone’s expectations are aligned. You will have an assistant project manager and a project coordinator at your disposal and be responsible for ensuring their tasks and objectives are clearly defined and are being met within the workload.
  You, along with the Project Director will be responsible for the Safety, Health and Well-being of everyone working on the project. You will enable a diverse environment and culture where everyone feels included and follow WSP’s guiding principles at all times.
  Core Functions
  • Ensure safety, health and wellbeing of the project team.
  • Management of the project scope and change control process.
  • Management and review of project programme timelines including monitoring of critical path, resource pinch points, delivery of milestones, reporting internally and to the client.
  • Primary interface with client team to provide regular updates and manage expectations.
  • Management of project budget, financial performance and associated reporting
  • Forecasting, cost to complete and earned value management reporting to client (using client specified method and processes where specified).
  • Management of project risks and opportunities in line with client and business expectations.
  • Management of project resources and costs to ensure alignment between forecasts and actuals.
  • Implement scheduling controls to ensure the project is appropriately resourced to meet the demands of the programme.
  • Overall management of project controls using both WSP and client systems
  • Ensure that quality procedures are being adhered to through discussion with technical delivery teams.
  • Provide leadership on opportunities and bids as required by the business.
  • Identification of process improvements that would have positive effects on delivery.
  • Management of contracts and supplier / subcontractors.
  • Manage a delivery team of technical specialists.
  • Provide leadership and guidance to others within the PMO.
  • Undertake contract management tasks by raising Early Warnings, monitoring client instructions and general communications via a management platform such as CEMAR.
  What we will be looking for you to demonstrate…
  We are looking for an energetic individual who can demonstrate extensive experience in being a client-facing Project Manager on high value projects. You will need a degree, appropriate PM qualifications and experience of NEC contracts. If you are not a member of a Professional Institution, you will need to demonstrate an ability and willingness to become one. Ideally, you will have some knowledge and experience of Development Consent Orders or demonstrate your ability to learn quickly.
  Don’t quite meet all the criteria? Apply, and we can see how your experience aligns to this role and other opportunities within the team.
  Imagine a better future for you and a better future for us all.
  
  Join our close-knit community of talented individuals who share your passion for making a positive impact. Our global team includes more than 69,000 employees, working together to make a difference in communities both close to home and around the world.
  
  With us, you can. Apply today.
  
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• About the company

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